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1876 – Flag with 38 stars ( Colorado) 1889 – Flag with 39 stars that never was. Flag manufacturers mistakenly believed that the two Dakotas would be admitted instead as one state and so manufactured this flag, some of which still exist. It was never an official flag. 1890 – Flag with 42 stars that never was.
The first official flag resembling the "Stars and Stripes" was the Continental Navy ensign (often referred to as the Continental Union Flag, first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) used between 1775 and 1777. It consisted of 13 red-and-white stripes, with the British Union Flag in the canton.
Hugh Stewart sold a "flag of the United Colonies" to the Committee of Safety, and William Alliborne was one of the first to manufacture United States ensigns. [35] Any flag maker in Philadelphia could have sewn the first American flag. Even according to Canby, there were other variations of the flag being made at the same time Ross was sewing ...
An earlier version of the American flag's current design was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, though the date wouldn't be celebrated until a hundred years later.
Flag of the United States.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 421 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 168 pixels | 640 × 337 pixels | 1,024 × 539 pixels | 1,280 × 674 pixels | 2,560 × 1,347 pixels | 1,235 × 650 pixels. Original file (SVG file, nominally 1,235 × 650 pixels, file size: 899 bytes) The source code of this ...
The flag photographed in 1873 in the Boston Navy Yard by George Henry Preble [25] In 1873, Appleton lent the flag to George Henry Preble, a naval officer who had written a popular history of the American flag. [26] Preble had the flag quilted to a canvas sail, and unfurled it at the Boston Navy Yard to take the first known photograph of it.
The 49-star Flag of the United States, used from July 4, 1959 to July 3, 1960 after Alaska became the 49th state. It was defined in Executive Order 10798. Source: created by Gunter Küchler / Berlin using Inkscape: Author: Flag design by the U.S. Government; SVG by Gunter Küchler / Berlin: Other versions
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